Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Does anyone remember the former Purdon and Rasmussen trained pacer Ashley Locaz? In 2017 as a two-year-old Ashley Locaz beat Spankem, The Devil’s Own and All U Need Is Faith in the $150 000 Group 1 Harness Jewels. Two years later he ran 2nd behind Poster Boy in the Group 1 Chariots Of Fire, beating […]
Spot the Aussie. Then try and spot the West Aussie. Friday night’s $300 000 Fremantle Cup at Gloucester Park is a ripper of a race, an absolute bottler. It’s also a stark illustration of the current state of Western Australian harness racing. We often lament the situation in Tasmania where, operating under a business model […]
A few days ago I told you the story about how an NZ Racing Integrity Board adjudicator named Olivia Jarvis stuffed up an RIB hearing involving a horse named High Flying Harry. Today I want to tell you a bit more. The so-called ‘independent adjudicator’ Olivia Jarvis is the girlfriend/partner of a barrister named Kerry […]
Last week Sundees Sun won the Group 3 Southern Lights in almost a canter. It’s a huge shame that this trotter has such a huge illegal performance enhancing drug cloud over him, for without it he is almost certainly the best trotter that the Southern Hemisphere has seen since the Freak, the world class Lyell […]
New Zealand Racing Integrity Board chief Mike Clements has a real problem with his organisation, one that in the main is totally beyond his control. The problem is the adjudicators. Most of them don’t a thing about harness racing, or don’t understand it, or both. Olivia Jarvis is one of them. Jarvis a young criminal […]
Self Assured is one of the three best horses in New Zealand. I’ve long thought he was the best out of him, Copy That and South Coast Arden, although the former and latter are both brilliant. Trainer Mark Purdon tuned Self Assured up for his Auckland campaign with a trial at North Canterbury on Wednesday. […]
Have a look at this race. It’s the prelude to the Marlborough Cup run on Sunday as the second card of the two day feature meeting. The horse we are looking at is Homebush Lad, the equal 2nd favourite. It’s driven by Ben Hope, if driven is actually the right word. Driven deader than Elvis […]
This is race 10 at the Cambridge Trots tonight. I don’t know who Dane and Margaret are, but gee I wish them well. Maggie and I celebrated a significant wedding anniversary yesterday that made us realise that we had been married a long time, and loved every day. It seems like forever, but it is […]
SAFE NZ’s Will Appelbe says he’s spoken with “a number of people in the industry” who all fear the rapidly declining numbers are not an example of an industry bettering itself for the sake of its dogs, but one willing to do everything it can to save itself – even if that means harming them […]
Recently we told you the story of Mark Dunnett, the previously very slow pacer prepared by Courage Under Fire’s trainer Bruce Negus, who was transferred to the Sunshine Boys down at Wooden Beach and grew two legs and found an extra five seconds in speed. One of our Kiwi readers decided to take the matter […]
